CVE-2010-1159: Aircrack-NG

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Aircrack-ng before 1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a (1) large length value in an EAPOL packet or (2) long EAPOL packet.

Affected products

• Aircrack-NG Aircrack-NG: up to and including 1.0; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.2.1 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; …
• Gentoo Linux: any version

Published 2013-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.